http://arkomina.com mina arko Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:07:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In January we had a workshop with Andreu Balius from Typerepublic. It was intensive work and fun at the same time. I started to work on this type, I wanted it to have big contrasts between thin and thick lines. Drawing these thin lines in Fontlab was a real pain, ... http://arkomina.com/blog/489/andreu-balius-workshop http://arkomina.com/work/470/ring-roads-europe My this year's Christmas cards in English and Finnish. I might develop these letters to a new display font ... http://arkomina.com/blog/462/x-mas-cards We had a really good workshop with a German designer Anette Lenz. Our topic was the New Year's wish for Helsinki. The first assignment was collecting photos of different places that reflect certain emotions (respectful, profound, encouraging ... ) We had to share moments in our life when we were ... http://arkomina.com/blog/456/anette-lenz-poster-workshop http://arkomina.com/work/447/helsinki-poster A slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek (his picture is taken form his website) gave a lecture in Kiasma today, titeled Cinema and ideology: report from battleground. He talked about ideology - he described it as an invisible background noise that is never spoken about, but is rather everything that stays between ... http://arkomina.com/blog/443/slavoj-zizek This week we had an interesting 'poster' workshop with the Image-shift guys. It all started with questions about politics and ended with a bunch of very personal problems that we all share as graphic designers. These were then glued all over Taik. http://arkomina.com/blog/439/vandalizing-taik Arabia Maskerad 2009 at Korjaamo. With Marieke we painted mustache on everyone:). This guys are getting some serious mustache treatment. http://arkomina.com/blog/434/mustache-rules After visiting another great fleamarket I decided to pay more attention to old book covers. So I'm starting a flickr group - I want to make a proper collection. I'll post a link when there's enough interesting book covers to show. http://arkomina.com/blog/417/book-covers My friends are organizing a pop jazz festival and this is the poster for the latest event. I was too busy so this is done by computer ... http://arkomina.com/blog/414/popjazziada-09 My work will be shown in the 4th Biennial of Slovene Visual Communication, Brumen. Nouvelle is also used in the catalog for the yearly exhibition of Academy of art and design in Ljubljana. http://arkomina.com/blog/410/brumen-etc I finally arrived to Helsinki and I hope to start an exciting new school year:) http://arkomina.com/blog/408/helsingissa http://arkomina.com/work/401/business-card http://arkomina.com/work/386/illustration http://arkomina.com/work/350/nouvelle-specimen